Re: Korean-War:UN Peace Keeping

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

Cookie,

 >>At 01:52 PM 5/12/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Ed,
>
>That makes perfect sense to me. I get the feeling many of these "raids" 
>look more like an Eastern version of Montgomery's concept of "tidying up 
>the lines" more than any massive attempt to gain terrority or advantage 
>for an invasion. <<

Good description of what took place.  There was nothing in these mountain 
areas which would assist in future operations.

In 1950, there were only three routes south from the 38th Parallel,  the 
one through Seoul, the one in the central sector at Ch'unch'on and the last 
the east coast highway.  Of these, the central sector and east coast roads 
were, despite being called "national highways," what we would describe as 
"improved country roads."  It was this which slowed the initial NK advance 
in those areas more than ROKA resistance, and once US air came into play 
these routes caused a logistic nightmare for NK forces in the central and 
east coast sectors.

Ed

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